AMD Strengthens Senior Leadership Team
January 16 2020 - 4:15PM
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced several promotions and a new hire
to strengthen its senior leadership team to further enable the
company’s continued growth.
AMD announced four senior vice president
promotions:
- Nazar Zaidi to senior vice president of Cores, Server SoC and
Systems IP Engineering with continued responsibility for leading
the development of leadership CPU cores, server SoCs and system
IP.
- Andrej Zdravkovic to senior vice president of Software
Development, leading the teams responsible for all aspects of AMD
software strategy and development across AMD graphics, client and
data center products.
- Spencer Pan to senior vice president of Greater China Sales and
president of AMD Greater China, with responsibility for leading all
sales and go-to-market activities for AMD in Greater China and
expansion of strategic partner and customer relationships in the
region.
- Jane Roney to senior vice president of Business Operations,
responsible for aligning and scaling critical business processes
across the company to support growth and help ensure consistent
execution.
AMD also announced it has hired industry veteran
Daniel (Dan) McNamara as senior vice president and general manager,
Server Business Unit. McNamara is responsible for building on the
successful introduction of the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors to
further accelerate adoption of the company’s high-performance
server solutions with cloud, enterprise and ecosystem partners.
McNamara combines extensive semiconductor and enterprise expertise,
consistent engineering execution and a proven track record of
successfully driving growth in the data center market. Most
recently, he was senior vice president and general manager of
Intel’s Network and Custom Logic Group. Throughout his 27-year
career he has also held senior management and engineering roles at
Altera, StarGen, SemiTech Solutions and Raytheon.
“Strengthening and expanding our leadership team
are key to building on the significant momentum we have generated
over the past several years,” said Dr. Lisa Su, AMD president and
CEO. “I am delighted to announce these additions to our senior
leadership team. Each of these leaders will play key roles in
helping us achieve our long-term growth objectives in the coming
years.”
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immersive platforms and the data center. Hundreds of millions of
consumers, leading Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge
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